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Just Enough, Just in Time, Just for "Me": Fundamental Principles for Engineering IoT-native Software Systems
Zheng Li, Rajiv Ranjan
By seamlessly integrating everyday objects and by changing the way we interact with our surroundings, Internet of Things (IoT) is drastically improving the life quality of househol…
Boosting Metrics for Cloud Services Evaluation -- The Last Mile of Using Benchmark Suites
Zheng Li, Liam O'Brien, Rainbow Cai +1
Benchmark suites are significant for evaluating various aspects of Cloud services from a holistic view. However, there is still a gap between using benchmark suites and achieving h…
On Evaluating Commercial Cloud Services: A Systematic Review
Zheng Li, He Zhang, Liam O'Brien +2
Background: Cloud Computing is increasingly booming in industry with many competing providers and services. Accordingly, evaluation of commercial Cloud services is necessary. Howev…
Spot Pricing in the Cloud Ecosystem: A Comparative Investigation
Zheng Li, He Zhang, Liam O'Brien +4
Background: Spot pricing is considered as a significant supplement for building a full-fledged market economy for the Cloud ecosystem. However, it seems that both providers and con…
The more Product Complexity, the more Actual Effort? An Empirical Investigation into Software Developments
Zheng Li, Liam O'Brien, Ye Yang
[Background:] Software effort prediction methods and models typically assume positive correlation between software product complexity and development effort. However, conflicting o…
Early Observations on Performance of Google Compute Engine for Scientific Computing
Zheng Li, Liam O'Brien, Rajiv Ranjan +1
Although Cloud computing emerged for business applications in industry, public Cloud services have been widely accepted and encouraged for scientific computing in academia. The rec…